Shootfighter Fight to the Death (1993)

Description: Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a “shootfighter” (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.

One Response to Shootfighter Fight to the Death (1993)

One of the best, if not THE best, Bloodsport knockoffs, they had the insight to recruit Bolo Yeung for the project. This uncut version contains all 36 seconds of gore snipped from the ‘final round’ contests to produce the ‘R’ rated version. The first cut was in the pre-title segment, the other 11 cuts started at about the 1 hour mark.

One of Bolo’s greatest films, even if he’s sort of a good guy here. We get to hear him attempt complete sentences in English, which is quite endearing, actually. Remember “Time for go to bed” by Tor Johnson (aka Super Swedish Angel) in The Unearthly? There was one overhead shot looking directly down involving spears where I flashbacked to the Gamesters of Triskelion Star Trek TOS episode; perhaps the resemblance was intentional.